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Everything in our lives has the potential to wake us up or put us to sleep. Allowing it to awaken us is up to us.
Pema Chodron
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Pema Chodron
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: July 14
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Ego is like a room of your own, a room with a view with the temperature and the smells and the music that you like. You want it your own way. You'd just like to have a little peace, you'd like to have a little happiness, you know, just gimme a break.
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That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. Everything is in process.
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So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.
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The approach is that the best way to use unwanted circumstances on the path of enlightenment is not to resist but to lean into them.
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We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart.
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Compassionate action starts with seeing yourself when you start to make yourself right and when you start to make yourself wrong. At that point you could just contemplate the fact that there is a larger alternative to either of those, a more tender, shaky kind of place where you could live.
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If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it's fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much better to turn your attention to the fact that there's an arrow in your heart.
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If you work with your mind, that will alleviate all the suffering that seems to come from the outside.
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My experience with forgiveness is that it sort of comes spontaneously at a certain point and to try to force it it's not really forgiveness. It's Buddhist philosophy or something spiritual jargon that you're trying to live up to but you're just using it against yourself as a reason why you're not okay.
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It isn't the things that are happening to us that cause us to suffer, it's what we say to ourselves about the things that are happening. The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
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If you aren't feeding the fire of anger or the fire of craving by talking to yourself, then the fire doesn't have anything to feed on.
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Are you experiencing restlessness? Stay! Are fear and loathing out of control? Stay! Aching knees and throbbing back? Stay! What's for lunch? Stay! I can't stand this another minute! Stay!
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Clarity and decisiveness come from the willingness to slow down, to listen to and look at what’s happening.
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The truth is that good and bad coexist sour and sweet coexist. They aren't really opposed to each other.
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Difficult people are the greatest teachers.
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Unconditional good heart toward others is not even a possibility unless we attend to our own demons.
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This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it's with us wherever we go.
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All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.
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